Rikki Lea Bestall
Chief Executive Officer / Screenwest
Rikki Lea Bestall was appointed chief executive of Screenwest in May 2021. Earlier in her career, Ms Bestall had spent eight years at Screenwest, where she served as director of development and later as head of development & production, before leaving in June 2018 to work as an independent producer and consultant for a number of WA projects. After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Ms Bestall worked in a number of crew roles in Victoria, NSW and Queensland, before heading to Los Angeles where she developed slates and produced projects for Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment, Dreamworks and Disney/Touchstone.
